ARHIVELE OLTENIEI - Universitatea din Craiova

338Roxana Nanu, Oana Berceanu, Radu BuzienescuBeing an integrationist group that reached a superior state ofdevelopment, aiming for the politic union, the European model is a semi opentype because it has liberalised outgoings while the incomings are conditioned bythe custom union. Because the European model is in a phase of innerconsolidation (of integration deepening), it has a more restrained global impact.In its evolution for almost half a century, the European model hasstructured upon cheep work and expensive capital, the work being conceived asa complementary value to the material efforts made by the society. The purposebeing of the economic activity is the society comfort, and the media isrepresented by the economy. In consequence, aside the outturn component of theeconomical-social activities we encounter other two components: incometransfers in the social protection purpose and the social cohesion as a source ofthe social peace.The European model was and remains at the present time a transitionmodel, which requires supranational processes, economical and social-politicalconvergence processes and integration processes. The European economy is amonetary economy where the winning-productivity equilibrium is achieved,assuring the safety at the working place, the risk being calculated andminimised. As any market economy the European economy is a producteconomy realised in middle and large companies mixed system.The European model generates integration (deepening and extension)processes, its purpose being the realisation of a combination of the decisions atthe over- state regional level to those from the state national level. Hence, sincethe European integration and development model promotes the economicconvergence it is a model which homogenises the different national economiesin a unique market and economy, the Internal Unique Market and the EconomicMonetary Economy.By synthesising these characteristics, the European model distinguishesthrough the fallowing features 7 :- most of the economic goods take the economic shape of merchandise,but the consume of an important part isn’t realised by the market rules;- the economic non- commercial goods have a significant weight;- through the economic politics adopted the saving and the redistributionof incomes are encouraged;- the direct taxation policy prevails over the indirect one (both theincomes and the capital are taxed);- the ample redistribution of the incomes between zones in order toreduce the gaps between the arias of the country;- the banking system is strongly with the firms, being able to assure theirlong term financing;- the undertaking cannot function outside the social dialog;7 Gheorghe Pirvu, op. cit., p. 71.